email box getting bombed

ethan · 4 Feb 2009 at 22:09

by return post notification failures when I am not even sending mail? Short of blocking sender how can I deal with them as I am getting about 50 of these a day-all from different addresses. Thanks.

Edit: forgot to mention I am using Outlook express as my primary mail service provider.

for example: This is an automatically generated Delivery Status Notification.

Delivery to the following recipients failed.

[email protected]

Tony Williams · 4 Feb 2009 at 22:10

Are you currently at war with anyone?

gumbald · 4 Feb 2009 at 22:11

What is the address they're supposedly coming from?

ethan · 4 Feb 2009 at 22:14

gumbald said:
What is the address they're supposedly coming from?

Up to about 50 different addresses at the moment. Everytime I block a days worth of these messages I get another lot the following day: all different (addresses) :confused:

NickM · 4 Feb 2009 at 22:18

Sounds like somebody is using your email address to spam people and these are the results of that.

gumbald · 4 Feb 2009 at 22:18

They're all supposedly coming from your address or is it a catch-all?

AGD · 4 Feb 2009 at 22:20

NickM said:
Sounds like somebody is using your email address to spam people and these are the results of that.

Sounds like this to me too.

ethan · 4 Feb 2009 at 22:33

gumbald said:
They're all supposedly coming from your address or is it a catch-all?

My email address unfortunately. Just noticed Outlook express appears to be making changes or modifications in vista without my permission-at least according to windows defender which is no doubt related to this

This is happening on a daily basis and would explain perhaps the differences in email addresses I am receiving. The thing is how to stop it as Vista and windows defender does not appear to let me?

Keltik THC · 4 Feb 2009 at 22:34

ethan said:
Up to about 50 different addresses at the moment. Everytime I block a days worth of these messages I get another lot the following day: all different (addresses)

i got this last year, literally 50-100 spam aday some odd days id get like 200-300 but that only happened once or twice... couldnt understand how anyone had got my email because im very careful with it, but i phoned my IP and jusat said that once someone has found a domain they just try everything under that domain until you find a way to stop it..

I found using Kaspersky i can check emails on my ISPs server before i download them, so after about a week of deleting them all i guess who ever sent them could tell that my server was rejecting them and gave up.

ethan · 4 Feb 2009 at 22:42

Just found this: http://www.spamfighter.com/Product_Info.asp
Anybody used it?

platinum87 · 4 Feb 2009 at 22:42

ahh the good old days, i used to be able to fill peoples hotmail accounts completely in about 5 minutes, was like 10,000 msg's now youd need billions :S